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SAN JOSE, Calif. — From a distance, it looks like a kayak or a surfboard. But it’s not a person enjoying an afternoon at the beach — it’s a new high-tech device to look for great white sharks.

Researchers at Cal State Long Beach have begun testing what they are calling a “semi-autonomous shark surveillance bot.” The unmanned craft, ...Read more

The global energy crisis triggered by two wars is set to worsen, as Ukraine pummels Russia’s refining industry and Iranian attacks continue on Middle Eastern oil production and refining. Further, the nature of the destruction and the growing number of fronts and warring parties involved may herald a new era of extended vulnerability for ...Read more

President Donald Trump argued last month that Canada should pay damages — or face additional tariffs — for the wildfire smoke recently “poisoning” American air, and claimed that he strong-armed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during the World Cup final in New Jersey, telling Carney he needed to stop the fires.

To Trump and the ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm was thriving in Baltimore’s Greenspring neighborhood when researchers from Morgan State University proposed establishing a weather station in its fields.

Farm founder Richard “Farmer Chippy” Francis saw the value of long-term, local weather data. The former biomedical engineer saw a path to ...Read more

DENVER — “How did it feel to look back at Earth?” a small voice asked the astronauts. A line of children waiting to pop their own questions snaked from the boy standing at the shortened microphone into the wings of Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday.

Christina Koch, one of four astronauts who manned NASA’s Artemis II mission in April, ...Read more

Three large wildfires raced through neighborhoods in and around Spokane, Washington, the weekend of Aug. 1, 2026, destroying at least 600 homes and other structures and threatening many more. Tens of thousands of people, including patients at the Veterans Affairs medical center, were forced to evacuate as crews from across Washington and ...Read more

PONTIAC, Mich. — A drone lifts off from an Amazon facility with a package secured tightly beneath. It climbs over Metro Detroit neighborhoods on its way to a customer's doorstep — and into a growing debate over noise, privacy and who controls the skies.

Amazon is betting drones will reshape package delivery. Amazon Prime Air launched in the...Read more

Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch.

Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens ...Read more

TOOLIK FIELD STATION, NORTH SLOPE, Alaska — Unlike most people, Rose Cory wasn’t drawn to northern Alaska for the vistas of the weather-scarred Brooks Range or the braided rivers winding through seemingly endless tundra. Rather, she was lured by what it contains on an atomic level: “It’s the carbon,” Cory said.

To Cory, an aquatic ...Read more

Why not just build them in space? As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and storing data aboard satellites in low-Earth orbit, using large solar arrays for power. It’s a crazy idea, ...Read more

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA officials and state leadership cut the ribbon Friday on the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years as the agency undergoes a wave of consolidation.

The Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley Research Center is a 25,000-square-foot facility that aims to play a major role in providing research for ...Read more

Federal water managers on Friday announced a 10-year plan to manage the critical Colorado River that opens the door to unprecedented water supply cuts to three states and will require near-constant negotiation between water users in the river basin.

The report made public Friday is the culmination of years of intense and divisive negotiations ...Read more

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump’s administration has stopped work on a project to slow the spread of invasive carp in the Great Lakes, a move Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday said amounted to a major attack on Illinois’ and the nation’s freshwater supply.

The comments came hours after the Pritzker administration said it had asked the federal...Read more

Federal water managers on Friday announced a 10-year plan to manage the critical Colorado River that opens the door to unprecedented water supply cuts to three states and will require near-constant negotiation between water users in the river basin.

The report made public Friday is the culmination of years of intense and divisive negotiations ...Read more

The Trump administration has released its long-awaited 10-year plan for dealing with worsening water shortages along the Colorado River. Instead of ordering the most drastic water cutbacks it could have imposed, the administration chose to take more of a wait-and-see approach.

The plan allows for harsh water cuts if they’re deemed necessary, ...Read more

California hit a major milestone in May, generating more than half its electricity from the sun in what is believed to be a global first, according to a new analysis from the U.K.-based energy think tank Ember.

“California has had a wealth of solar growth in the last five years,” said Abby Lestina, an analyst at Grid Status, another group ...Read more

The Trump administration has released its long-awaited 10-year plan for dealing with worsening water shortages along the Colorado River. It allows for harsh water cutbacks if deemed necessary, potentially requiring California, Arizona and Nevada to cut up to 3 million acre-feet per year — up to 40% of the combined allotments.

But state and ...Read more

A bus company that left its buses’ engines running while parked in Boston neighborhoods has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to pay US$5.6 million in damages for the resulting air pollution.

The settlement came in a citizen-enforcement lawsuit under the Clean Air Act, which allows any person to sue alleged polluters for the harm done ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Forget the smell of blood and all the shark fears we’ve internalized thanks to “Jaws” and “Shark Week.” Turns out, the first thing a shark notices about humans actually might be the unique sounds we make in the ocean.

And great white sharks — at least the ones in a sharky hot spot like Southern California— have ...Read more